A good deal of interesting information about conditions in Germany
came my way the other day through a channel which I need not specify. It includes, among other things, a remarkable testimony to the efficiency of the Moscow radio, which broadcasts every evening in German. There must obviously be secret transmitters, for the promptitude with which news of events that have happened in Germany itself is radiated from Moscow can be accounted for in no other way. Moscow, moreover, is endowed with a sense of humour. Not long ago, about nine in the evening, the announcer thus delivered himself : " Good evening, Frau A. Your husband left you at seven o'clock to attend a Party Conference. He is not at a Party Conference ; he is visiting Fraulein B. at such and such an address." [Frau A. is the wife of a prominent Cabinet Minister, Fraulein B. a well-known actress.] Some friends of my informant, having listened to this interesting information, decided to take a walk in the street in question. So, it turned out, had quite a number of other people—much to the embarrassment of the gentleman concerned when he duly emerged from the house in question and entered his car. I tell the story as it was told to me—and it was told to me as true.
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